Gianni Cavina

Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror. (imdb)

Grotesque 'Bordello' of Nightmares! (tagline)

A bizarre but heavy-handed giallo spoof which features a plethora of eccentric characters: inept detective, diminutive hero, a cross-eyed psycho and a dwarf (actually a man in drag!) for servants - plus a mad combo of relatives including a matriarch suffering from dementia, her cowboy of a second husband, her sex-crazed retarded son who has to be frequently restrained via electro-shock therapy, another son who's also a 'little man' (played by Bob Tonelli, one of the film's own financiers!), etc. (imdb Comment)

A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending. (Yahoo!)

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. (imdb)

Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it. (imdb)

The 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a summer with his father on Count Pallavicini's estate preparing for an important examination at the Bologna Philharmonic Academy. However, in between his studies he falls in with the local boys of his own age, and also feels the first stirrings of love for Antonia, a girl from a nearby villa. Tasting for the first time the life of a normal 14-year-old, Mozart decides to fail the examination...

Directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With Laughing Windows" in 1976.

The relationships between five men who play cards far into the night on Christmas Eve are the focus of this psychological drama by Pupi Avati. Four of the players are out to skin the fifth, industrial tycoon Santelia (Carlo Delle Piane), but the four are not exactly a united front. Theater-owner Franco (Diego Abatantuono) is nearly bankrupt and harbors a deep and well-founded resentment against Ugo (Gianni Cavina), a wacko television host... (allmovie.com)

17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players meet for a new challenge. Who can trust who? (imdb)

Franco Elica is a filmmaker worried about his daughter marriage with a catholic extremist. He is filming also another version of 'I Promessi Sposi'. But a scandal explodes within the production pushing Franco to escape in Sicilia. Here he meets Mr. Palagonia that proposes him to film his daughter marriage. But Franco, while is recycling himself as ceremony's filmmaker, falls in love for her. (imdb)

Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist. (Wikipedia)

Edwige Fenech and Lino Banfi stars in this Italian sex-comedy from Sergio Martino. Mariana (Fenech) and Domenico (Banfi) are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player. (imdb)

Three friends remember the good old times of fascist Italy, when "He" (dictator Mussolini) ruled the country.

Comedy about a confirmed bachelor who is only entitled to his mother's inheritance if he marries and has to convince his father that he is heading for the altar. (bfi)

Comedy in which a young girl is married to an old man for his wealth. (bfi)

A respectable girl decides to marry an irresponsible man. (imdb)

Italy, 1952. The young official Furio Momenté is sent to Veneto region, near Polesine, to investigate a shocking and mysterious case: a minor has in fact killed one of his peers claiming to have killed the devil himself. (imdb)

Dramatic movie inspired by Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Marco kills his father. An apparently inexplicable hatred led him to that gesture after a life spent in apparent normality. After the murder, Rinaldi, a policeman investigating the crime, suspects Marco, but he immediately realizes that he is facing a boy hit by a drama bigger than him.

This is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth. (imdb)

Lino Settembre and his wife Chicca lead a tranquil married life without any serious problems. They are satisfied with their careers. He's the sports editor at the Messenger and she's a professor of medieval languages at the Universita' Gregoriana. (imdb)